(Backstory): Twenty years from now a three-ship armada on Humanity’s first mission to colonize Mars, meets with cosmic disaster enroute to the Red Planet. Alien ships appear and an electromagnetic burst of energy sends the colonists’ spacecraft careening at light speed and burns out their electronics. Only two ships survive: The Phobos captained by General Colorado (a full blooded Sioux) and the armada flagship, Ares, under the overall command of Captain General Ursula (The “Ice Queen”) Winters and (second in command) General Ryalls.
Where is Earth? Their computers and electronics destroyed, they are running low on fuel, oxygen and water. Everyone expects to die. And then they find and orbit Earth only to discover Earth is different. There are no cities down below. With the exception of strange, towering Earthworks, the planet is pristine, covered with forests, jungles, rivers, and lakes.
The scientists deduce the two ships may have been propelled at least 20,000 years into the future; that the blast of cosmic energy destroyed much of civilization, and that cavemen and hunter gatherers now rule Earth. Captain General Winters orders teams of scientists to descend to Earth in separate landing pods. Their objectives: make friends with the natives, discover what became of Earth’s cities and civilizations, and scout out a site to establish a colony.